Guppies are very pretty fish. They also are one of the few fish that give live birth. For weeks we enjoyed watching the pretty fish swim around. A few days later, we noticed that the girl guppies’ bellies were bigger than when we first got them! We all came to the conclusion that the guppies were full of babies!
We continued watching the fish for a few more days. One morning, I stopped to look at the guppies before going outside and I saw three tiny babies swimming around! I excitedly told everyone, and they quickly came to look. In a short time the fish tank had quite a few baby guppies swimming around in it.
Not a week later, the other guppy had her babies! We repeated the same thing, and soon released the babies back with the other ones. We did not realize how many guppies we had, until one evening when we fed them, and guppies just kept coming! We have more guppies than I can count right now, and we don’t know what to do with them! If all the girls have babies, then we would soon have millions of guppies! Guppies galore!
We were excited, but also worried for the baby guppies, for the other fish were hungry, swimming around waiting for the little fish to leave the safety of the water plants. When one did, the older fish quickly swallowed it whole! When we saw that even the momma guppy was feasting on her own babies, we quickly got a jar and filled it with water and placed the fry into it. A few days later, after the baby guppies had grown a little, we put them back into the big fish tank and watched to see if the full-grown guppies ate them. To our relief, the bigger fish did not eat the smaller ones.
~Samuel
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